Tagged: PPIC

Government & Politics
9:17 am
Thu September 20, 2012

New Poll Shows Brown's Tax Measure Still Ahead of Rival

California Governor Jerry Brown’s November tax initiative has dropped a couple of points in new Public Policy Institute of California and Field Polls out this morning.

State Capitol reporter Ben Adler says Proposition 30 still has majority support – and it’s still ahead of a rival measure, Proposition 38.

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Government & Politics
8:31 pm
Tue October 4, 2011

Era of reform a century ago inspires new proposals for California

One hundred years ago this month, California’s experiment in direct democracy was born with the introduction of the ballot initiative and referendum process. Now, a century later, Californians are again looking at new ideas to fix what many feel is a broken system in Sacramento. So what might the next 100 years have in store?

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